4.02 Skills Teamwork and professional collaboration. Transcript (CO1, CO2, CO4,
WO1 to WO6)
"A successful team is a group of many hands in one mind." - Bill Bethel
Skills you need for teamwork, communication, and professional collaboration
involve lifelong learning. Critical thinking is needed as well as self-reflection to
find gaps in skills to fill.
Key elements to train communication skills and improved teamwork and
collaboration include:
• Active listening
• Eliciting the story
• Showing empathy
• Caring
Learning Communication Skills to Enhance Teamwork and Collaboration
Learning communication and collaboration include:
• Determining your strengths and weaknesses through self-reflection
• Respect those with different views
• Working with integrity and consistency
• Function as a part of a team and value each team member’s contribution
• When appropriate be a leader; when not be a follower
• Collaborate with experts when needed
• Always ensure role clarity for the whole team
• Showcase team members accomplishments
• Always embrace effective communication
• Commit to the facility and team goals
• Encourage everyone’s participation
• Resolve conflicts
• Effectively transition care
• Support effective teamwork skill development
Teamwork skills are critical to effective nursing care that is safe (van de Mortel et
al., 2021). van de Mortel et al. tested a unique way to learn communication,
learning circles. They discuss intersubjectivity which is required for effective
teamwork as it is described as how people of different backgrounds
communicate. It allows the team to listen and value other perspectives and
opinions. It promotes interprofessional practice. Effective learning circles have
trained facilitators and a team ready to learn.
Cook and Valentine (2021) did a study on teaching teamwork to nursing
students. They noted that teamwork training promotes use of collaboration,
